GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 11, 7 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

EMPIRE COUNCIL OF COMMERCE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, July 5. A meeting of representatives of chambers of commerce of the Empire unanimously decided to form a British Imperial Council of Commerce on the lines of the associated chambers, and to report in March.

DEFECTIVE DESTROYERS. London, July 5, Seven destroyers of the Acorn class arrived at Portland leaking badly, as the result of the steam trials, in which they attained a speed of 28 knots, having strained the rivets, admitting water into the oil bunkers and rendering the oil useless. It is believed the hulls ar« unable to stand the constant vibration caused by the engines at full power in 1 a rough sea.

OVERSEA VISITORS AT GLASGOW. London, July 5. The Glasgow Corporation are enterSaining the oversea parliamentarians. They went for a sail on the Firth of Clyde, and visited various lochs. There was a banquet in the evening, at which the presentation of the freedom of the city to Sir Joseph Ward, Mr. Fisher, and Lord Kitchener was carried out. A FATAL FIRE. St. Petersburg, July 5. The country house at Viborg of Ludwig Noble, the oil millionaire, has been burnt, and his boy and girl killed. The governess went raving mad in trying to rescue them. The parents were absent at St. Petersburg.

HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA. New, York, July 5. Scorching heat prevails throughout the Eastern States, and there have been .many cases of prostration. The fear that the corn crop in Kansas has been ruined has caused an advance in price.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, London, July 5. Sir Edward Straehey, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, announced an outbreak of foot and mouth disease at Honolulu. A heifer and 42 pigs Averu affected. To-day's newspapers anticipate that Canada, Australia and South Africa will renew restrictive orders preventing the export of cattle bought at high prices at British shows.

CELEBRATION DAY CASUALTIES. New York, July 5. Celebration Day statistics from Chicago show that the casualties were the smallest known. There were 24 deaths and 881 injured, and the loss from fire aggregated £70,000.

AN INTOXICATED MOTORIST. London, July 5. Frederick McClurc, an army tutor at Eastbourne, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the manslaughter of Squire, another army tutor, the cause of death being a motor accident. The evidence showed that McClure was intoxicated -while driving.

MEETING OF FEIVY COUNCIL, London, July 5. The King held a meeting of the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, swearing in the new members. Lord Islington and Mr. Fisher, though absent, were declared members. Sir Joseph Ward was present.

SHOT BY AN UNKNOWN MAN. New York, July 5. A patrolman at Seattle was shot and killed by an unknown man in the street.

ANOTHER INJUSTICE TO WOMEN. Ottawa, July 5. A lady lawyer his been refused permission to practice in British Columbia.